Secure Designs, ZixCorp Offer Managed E-Mail Security

Managed security services provider Secure Designs announced a
partnership with e-mail encryption provider Zix Corporation
to offer hosted e-mail encryption services to its small and midsize
business customers. Each ZixCorp customer is enrolled in the
ZixDirectory, the
company's global repository with more than 20 million members.

"Our offering delivers automatic e-mail encryption
that's transparent to the sender and, in most cases, the receiver as
well," said Steven Irons, vice president of channel sales for ZixCorp.
"Our e-mail encryption service, combined with SDI's managed services, will
ensure that even the smallest organizations are able to comply with regulations
without placing an unnecessary cost or administrative burden on them."

SDI specializes in providing enterprise class managed
security services to SMB organizations including education, retail,
professional and financial services and manages thousands of firewalls
worldwide. Irons said by enhancing their outsourced net perimeter defense plan,
secure remote access and e-mail security offerings with e-mail encryption, SDI
simply and affordably adds a new module of protection for existing and
potential professional services, healthcare, and financial services customers. "ZixCorp offers the best e-mail encryption in the market
today both for large enterprises and for single-person offices," said
Larry Cecchini, chief operating officer at Secure Designs. "SDI has worked
with them over several years to develop and target an affordable,
easily-deployed managed services offering that is a great strategic fit for our
SMB customer base. Customers trying to deploy e-mail encryption on their own
would incur significant startup costs. Using SDI, they are able to participate
for an affordable monthly fee. It's the next logical evolution in the growth of
our value added services." ZixCopr also announced the next generation of the company's
E-mail Encryption Service. Highlights of the solution include updated versions
ZixGateway 4.0 (formerly ZixVPM) and ZixPort 3.7. ZixGateway 4.0 is the latest
generation of the company's directory-driven (ZixDirectoryTM), policy-based
e-mail encryption service. ZixGateway 4.0 continues to allow ZixCorp customers
to send and receive secure e-mail automatically and transparently while
delivering new capabilities including support for virtualization, multiple
languages and DKIM. ZixGateway is a policy-based e-mail
encryption appliance for enterprise-wide regulatory compliance. It provides
company-wide security, content filtering and management of outbound corporate
e-mail. ZixPort 3.7 is a portal-based secure
messaging service that provides companies with a way to encrypt e-mail
communications with their customers and business partners. As a component of
ZixCorp's E-mail Encryption Service, ZixPort is a secure messaging portal that
allows users who don't have e-mail encryption capabilities to securely send and
receive messages. ZixCorp delivers ZixPort as a hosted service, branded for
each customer, and notable features include language localization, increased
large file support capacity and support for the iPhone.

Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.